Emergency supplies reach outback town after Fregon store arson

Emergency food supplies have reached the remote community of Fregon in the APY Lands after a deliberate fire destroyed the town's general store and service station.

Store general manager David Schomburgk also hopes to be able to supply fuel again by Christmas.

He says community members met at the weekend in the far north-west of South Australia to discuss interim arrangements.

"Our principal concern is obviously within the community to make sure that people have food or access to food and we think we've got that under control," he said.

"The second thing is to make sure that the building itself is safe and that people aren't able to get in there because it's still in a very dangerous state."

Mr Schomburgk says Christmas presents for all the local children were inside the store when it went up in flames.

He says they now have been replaced and a party for the children will go ahead, albeit a day later than the original plan.

"One of our principal suppliers who provided them was incredibly generous with their time, completely repacked them all within 12 hours and we got them on the truck going up yesterday so the kids' party, whilst it's been deferred for a day, all the children will still get their Christmas presents," he said.